Evil Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

— Ann Patchett

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

— Euripides

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

— Muhammad

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

— Boethius

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

— Aeschylus

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of…

— George Eliot

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

— Agatha Christie